From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 26 3:31:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D61DD37B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 03:31:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from topper.inf.ed.ac.uk (topper.inf.ed.ac.uk [129.215.32.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B54E843FD7 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 03:31:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from A.J.Boothman@sms.ed.ac.uk) Received: from sms.ed.ac.uk (IDENT:s0094187@veronique.inf.ed.ac.uk [129.215.124.81]) by topper.inf.ed.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1QBV4g13676; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:31:04 GMT Message-ID: <3E5CA578.30008@sms.ed.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:31:04 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20030204 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: walt Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install References: <9F67035A-48C9-11D7-8C19-0030656DD690@foolishgames.com> <1046192310.3e5ba0b6aa039@sms.ed.ac.uk> <1046222195.2567.9.camel@trainee.cyber.mmu.edu.my> In-Reply-To: <1046222195.2567.9.camel@trainee.cyber.mmu.edu.my> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > >My experience with the FBSD boot manager is virtually zero, so I can't >address it's workings, but I use GRUB as a booter just because it gets >me out of so many jams like yours -- if something isn't where you thought >it was you can point GRUB at your disks and let it do the looking for you. > >The secret is to make a boot floppy with GRUB installed on it. Once you >have that there's no machine that's unbootable, and you can reinstall GRUB >in seconds if it gets overwritten by Bill & Co. > >For example, IIRC, I just went thru this myself (although it's all so routine >now I can't even remember what I do to bail out anymore) when I installed XP >on a brand new disk and then installed FBSD afterwards. I got the MBR screwed >up just like you, then ran the XP install disk in "Repair" mode which got XP >to boot again but overwrote the FBSD booter. So all I did was boot my trusty >GRUB floppy and reinstalled GRUB on the MBR in about 60 seconds and -- done. > >The next evil news is that I've never really gotten FBSD's incarnation of >GRUB to work right for me, so I just install in on the floppy from a linux >machine and use that for the FBSD machine. > >If you have access to GRUB and need instructions I'd be happy to help. >Just let me know. > Thanks for the tip! I'll give GRUB a try :) Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message